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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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ESCONDIDO - A man escaped with minor injuries today when his vehicle knocked down a utility pole, then burst into flames in Escondido, police said. The solo-vehicle crash happened shortly after midnight on Auto Park Way, Escondido police Lt. Ed Bennett said. The driver lost control of a Jeep and crashed into a street sign, then a power pole, causing the vehicle to go up in flames, Bennett said. The man, who was the only person in the vehicle, was able to exit the Jeep and the vehicle fire was extinguished a few minutes after...
VISTA - A man accused of entering his girlfriend's Vista house early this morning and snatching her 8-year-old son was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, drunken driving, and other offenses, a sheriff's sergeant said. Guillermo Cruz, 32, was intoxicated when he drove to his girlfriend's house in the 300 block of Hillside Terrace off East Vista Way, jumped a balcony fence and entered the house through an unlocked door shortly after 2:15 a.m., Sgt. Dan Harrison alleged. Cruz then allegedly abducted his girlfriend's sleeping...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego's average temperature of 76.8 degrees from July 1 to Aug. 20 is the hottest on record for that 51-day period, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today. The previous record was 76.6 degrees set in 1984. "For whatever reason the early '80s had warm summers,'' NOAA meteorologist Alexander Tardy said, noting that ocean temperatures were above normal and conditions were generally muggy. NOAA has documented similar trends this summer that partially contributed to a July streak of 17...
SAN DIEGO - Three bills authored by San Diego-area legislators were signed into law today by Gov. Jerry Brown, including one that increases penalties in human-trafficking cases and another limiting interaction between male correctional officers and female prisoners. Assemblyman Brian Maienschein, R-San Diego, authored AB 2105, which allows courts to triple fines and add civil penalties or damages in cases involving efforts to purchase sex from a minor. "AB 2105 protects children from sex predators looking to make money off...
SAN DIEGO - The city announced a joint agreement on Monday to extend approaching deadlines concerning the acquisition of land to expand the San Diego Convention Center. The city reached the "standstill agreement'' with the Port of San Diego and Fifth Avenue Landing, the company that holds the lease on property the city aims to use to expand the convention center. The agreement extends all deadlines under the purchase and sale agreement and escrow instructions to Sept. 25. The city council and Port of San Diego Board of Port...
SAN MARCOS - Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine, was accused by a female lobbyist of threatening to "bitch slap'' her and harassing her at a bar in Sacramento last week, it was reported Monday. Stephanie Roberson works for the California Nurses Association and filed a complaint with the Senate Rules Committee on Friday against Anderson, according to the Los Angeles Times. Another lobbyist who told the paper they witnessed the incident said Anderson approached Roberson at a fundraiser for another legislator at the Diplomat...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. This is the second year in a row the hospital has achieved this honor. Temecula Valley Hospital earned the award by meeting specif...
The Fallbrook High football team kicks off its 2018 season Friday, Aug. 17, when it hosts Del Norte High School, 7 p.m., at Fallbrook Stadium. Del Norte, which like Fallbrook went 1-9 last season, is one of four teams that the Warriors will face this year that are coming off rough campaigns in 2017. The others are Sweetwater High School, which went 1-9 last season; Scripps Ranch High School, which went 2-8, and Castle Park High School, which went 0-10. "I think this schedule...
Bob Hein Special to The Village News FALLBROOK – Diane Hein and her husband, Bob, moved to Fallbrook in 2000. Before she started unpacking she was on the phone. Diane had to find out if there was softball in Fallbrook. Three days later, she was on the field playing in the Fallbrook Senior Softball League. Now, Diane is in her 18th year with the Fallbrook Senior Softball League and, at age 76, is still the only woman player in the league and arguably, the oldest player in t...
Peter Miller enjoyed another big week at Del Mar with his horses based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall, winning six races to extend his lead in the trainer standings. Miller opened the fourth week of racing at Del Mar by winning the third race, Aug. 8, with the 2-year-old gelding Hartel, who proved the third start was the charm when he took a five-furlong maiden allowance race on the turf. Hartel, the 9-5 favorite ridden by leading jockey Flavien Prat, paid...
PALA – After a one-year hiatus for expansion/construction, Monday Night Football will return to Pala Casino Spa & Resort starting at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Sept. 10, in the newly-expanded Luis Rey’s Bar & Lounge when the New York Jets meet the Detroit Lions in the first game of a National Football League MNF season-opening doubleheader that also includes the Los Angeles Rams versus the Oakland Raiders at 7:20 p.m. After Sept. 10, MNF games will start at 5:30 p.m. each week. Pala’s MNF parties will feature two themes, "Fan...
A varsity-alumni game does not count toward a high school's maximum permissible number of scrimmages, nor does it count in the season standings, but for the 14 Fallbrook High School boys seeking berths on the Warriors' varsity water polo team the match, Aug. 11, was the team's first competition of 2018. "We had about 10 or 12 alumni show up," said Fallbrook coach Bill Richardson. "They played our varsity tryout team and beat us pretty bad." The alumni players, whose Fallbrook High School playing careers range from the early...
Avery Lynas placed 23rd among the 40 runners who competed in the 3,000-meter race for 11-year-old and 12-year-old girls at the national Junior Olympics competition in Greensboro, North Carolina, July 29. The De Luz 12-year-old had a time of 11:42.98 on the North Carolina A&T college track. "It was really tiring," Lynas said. "It was just really hard because there was so much humidity." Lynas had qualified for the national Junior Olympics by finishing fifth at the regional qualifying race for San Diego, Los Angeles, and...
SAN DIEGO - Military officials Saturday, Aug. 18, identified the San Diego-based Marine at the center of a search in the seas southeast of the Philippines that was called off earlier this week. Cpl. Jonathan Currier, with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego's North County, was reported overboard at 9:40 a.m. Thursday while the USS Essex was conducting routine operations in the Sulu Sea. Currier was declared dead Aug....
The San Diego Legion, a Major League Rugby franchise, announced the appointment of Ashley Otte as Executive General Manager effective Aug. 27. In his new role, Otte is responsible for management of the Legion's overall business, including its relationships within Major League Rugby, the media, and Legion fans, sponsors, and partners. Prior to his current role, Otte served as the General Manager at The Enthusiast Network (TEN Media), specifically Powder Magazine group where he...
FALLBROOK - A man who fired a gun and threatened customers at a Fallbrook bar early this morning was thwarted by patrons who tackled him and held him until law enforcement could arrive, a San Diego County sheriff's deputy said. The man fired off at least one round into the air around 2 a.m. at the Red-Eye Saloon at 1448 S. Mission Road before other patrons "mobbed" him, sheriff's Sgt. Ken Lawrence said. He fired the gun before demanding the other patrons' wallets and phones,...
SAN DIEGO - The Palomar College Foundation announced today it received a $100,000 grant from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. The grant is an allocation by Supervisor Bill Horn from the Neighborhood Reinvestment Program and goes into effect June 19, 2019. The grant will help fund textbooks for incoming students, a new campus police vehicle for the Fallbrook center, a cargo van for the Camp Pendleton Education Center and a utility cart for the future Anita and Stan Maag Food and Nutrition Center at the San Marcos...
SAN DIEGO - A 21-year-old bitcoin dealer from Baja California was ordered held without bail today in connection with a 31-count indictment charging him with international money laundering and other financial crimes related to his digital-currency transactions. Jacob Burrell Campos, of Rosarito, was arrested Monday as he tried to enter the United States from Mexico through Otay Mesa Port of Entry. During a bond hearing today in federal court in San Diego, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Ciaffa described Burrell as a prolific...
SAN DIEGO - A former U.S. Navy captain and two chief petty officers were indicted in San Diego today on charges they allegedly received cash bribes, lavish hotel suites and the services of prostitutes from a foreign defense contractor and allegedly reciprocated by using their influence within the Navy's Seventh Fleet to approve inflated invoices from the contractor. Retired U.S. Navy Capt. David Williams Haas, 50, faces charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and...
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department today announced that on Thursday, Aug. 16, 43-year-old Craig Truckenbrodt and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Dayna Navas, residents of Riverside County, were detained by deputies in connection to a vehicle burglary that occurred at Live Oak Park in the 2700 block of Reche Road in Fallbrook. Items stolen from the victim's car were located inside Truckenbrodt's vehicle and Nava's purse. They were arrested and booked into the Vista...
Just a scant 10 years before Columbus discovered America, this story unfolds high above ground on the Ille de Cite. Lifted from the pages of Victor Hugo's acclaimed novel (ca 1831) about a deformed man and his love for a beautiful gypsy woman, the classic tale of bittersweet romance is brought to life by the players at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is riveting. Masterfully staged and passionately directed by Steven Glaudini, this is this se...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District and The Wildlands Conservancy are in escrow over a sale agreement for the Fallbrook Public Utility District's Santa Margarita property. A 4-1 FPUD board vote, April 30, with Charley Wolk opposed, approved the sale and purchase agreement along with escrow instructions, and the escrow agreement was executed June 8. If the sale is finalized, The Wildlands Conservancy would pay FPUD $10 million for the 1,384-acre property which was at one...
The utility operating the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station confirmed an incident last week involving a canister containing spent nuclear fuel and has directed the contractor in charge of transferring the fuel to conduct additional training. All transfers have been put on hold, Southern California Edison officials said in a statement released Aug. 10. The cannister, loaded by a crew from Holtec Aug. 3, got wedged, but a Southern California Edison oversight team discovered...
During the July 23 Fallbrook Public Utility District board meeting, FPUD's board, along with attending staff and members of the public, were updated on the status of the Santa Margarita Conjunctive Use Project, and following that update, FPUD's board voted 5-0 to approve a construction management services contract with Terrapin Group for up to $1,853,740. "It's just a contract to make sure we have oversight on the project when it goes to construction," said FPUD acting general manager Jack Bebee. The Santa Margarita...
Insituform Technologies was the successful bidder for a Fallbrook Public Utility District contract to reline FPUD sewer mainlines and manholes. A 5-0 FPUD board vote, July 23, awarded Insituform the contract for the company’s bid of $259,541.60. The work will reline 1,724 linear feet of sewer mainlines with a cured-in-place lining and provide in-place rehabilitation and epoxy coating for 12 FPUD manholes. “This is just a program to extend the life of existing sewer infrastructure,” FPUD acting general manager Jack Bebee...